president trump responding to the panel s findings, specifically where they say he is to blame for the deadly riot. also this hour, if you re trying to travel for the holidays, pack your patience, as they say. we re tracking a massive winter storm blankets much of the midwest, and the east coast. bitter cold temperatures bringing snow and ice to millions of americans. thousands of flights canceled. and at least a million people are without power. plus, a growing humanitarian crisis at the border with mexico. migrants being turned away from shelters as temperatures plunge in texas. a report from el paso coming up. we start this hour with the latest revelations from the january 6th select committee s final report. joining me now are nbc news congressional correspondent judy tsirkin, danny cevallos, criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst and mel harvin, former chief of homeland security, and intelligence for the district of columbia. thank you all for joining us.
i m john king in washington. thanks for sharing a busy news day. alec baldwin staring down charges. he will be indicted for involuntary manslaughter after the onset death of the rust cinematographer. we ll bring you details plus, brand-new cnn reporting. sources say questions about classified material and a special counsel investigation will not alter joe biden s 2024 campaign launch. the view in the west wing, the documents scandal. team biden says it s a beltway obsession and hope not much more and go to hell. a homeless veteran accuses george santos of a new low. swindling money from a gofundme intended to pay for a dying dog s lifesaving surgery. i don t want him to do it again. he took a piece of my heart when he did this. prosecutors in new mexico just last hour are announcing alec baldwin along with the film s armorer will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in that fatal shooting on the shoot of the western movie rust. let s bring in elie honig and crimi
bill says it s new structural racism. some schools think it s ok to discriminate against one group in favor of another. this has been six years in his garage, probably had a lot of people come over there, whether it s workers, whether it s staff, whether it s friends, like who knows. and they say they are being transparent but they are really not. why didn t they tell us about the ones in the garage when they knew it at the time. be transparent with the american people and treat everyone the same. that s all we are asking for. sandra: all right. lawmakers sounding off. begin america reports with a live look at the white house at this hour, a press briefing is scheduled this hour amid growing backlash for president biden as he struggles to explain how the classified documents ended up at his home and private office. hello, and welcome, i m sandra smith in new york. john, welcome back to you. john: sandra, good to be with you. what about the guy who was detailing the
i always had a few questions about it. reporter: the campaign, pretending to be your chief of staff. you know, i didn t know about that. it happened i was not notified about that until a later date. reporter: did you speak to him about it at all? yeah, i didn t know about it until a later date unfortunately. house speaker kevin mccarthy thought george santos resume was questionable before revelations about his lies were discovered and there are so many lies. some of them. others, like the fact that his political person pretended to be mccarthy s chief of staff. there s so many. i m sure he s not thrilled about that at all. as for santos, have we gone from ridiculous lies to russian ties? the bizarre saga takes another turn with new reporting that links him to the family of a sanctioned russian oligarch. hold on now. meanwhile, republicans remain focused on president biden. they re laser focused on biden and his handling of classified documents. the
i am carley shimkus. todd: i am ashley strohmier and for todd piro and merry christmas with your families and friends or whatever you are doing. currently, we did get to spend some time with our loved ones. look at that. this is may be yesterday santa claus gifted those onesies but we had so much fun on s fox & friends first and we got to hang to 2 mike hang out with santa and to his sleigh, his roster next year if they passed the past but never touched a reindeer before, but that did happen. we got to have a christmas breakfast after i got done with work yesterday but look at maggie. that is my little miss maggie. she was so when enthused of course, ialways get the nicee i m that nice win. but we had some problems with our electricity. ashley: because it stormed? carley: we didn t have power 72 hours and kind of blew up again so we have to go back brand-new, mind you. ashley: were you freezing? carley: we had icicles inside and it was a complete disaster so i fee